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BARN YARD CART.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 2, 1914.

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APPLICATION I-ILED'MAY 2, 1914.

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BARN-YARD CART.

Application filed May 2, 1914. Serial No. 836,020. g H U H To all whomit may concern Be it known that I, LUCIUS N. WADE, a citizen of theUnited States, residing at May View, in the county of Garfield and Stateof Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inBarn- Yard Carts, of which the following is a specification, referencebeing bad to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to a barn yard cart.

The object of the invention is to provide a structure of this characterwhich may be readily drawn over the ground by hand to all parts of thebarn yard or barn, and into which manure or other like matter mayreadily be deposited and held while being transferred to a place ofdeposit.

With the above and other objects in view, as will appear as the natureof the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novelconstruction and arrangement of parts of a barn yard cart, as will behere inafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, andin which like characters of reference designate corre sponding parts:Figure 1 is a View in side elevation of a barn yard cart embodying thefeatures of the invention; Fig. 2 is a front elevation thereof; Fig. 3is a side elevation of a slightly modified form; Fig. 4 is a similarview of another modified form; Fig. 5 is a view in rear elevation, on anenlarged scale, of the door releasingmechanism; Fig. 6 is a View takenon line 66 of Fig. 5; and Fig. 7is a view, in side elevation, on anenlarged scale, of a part of the structure.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates the body of the cart, which isof box form, and is closed at its bottom and sides, and open at itsfront end. The body is mounted upon wheels 2 carried by an axle 3 whichis supported by hangers at secured to the side sills 5, the latter beingextended rearwardly beyond the body to provide handle bars 6 which areconnected by a cross bar 7 in the usual or any ordinary manner, and bywhich the cart may be pushed or drawn over the ground. The wagon bodymay be supported in a substantially horizontal position by legs 8, ofthe usual or any pre ferred construction. The front end of the body isadapted to be closed by a pair of doors 9 each of which carries a hingeframe 10, and the two horizontal arms 11 of each Patented Dec. 29, 1914.

frame are provided at their outer end w1th sockets 12, and in thesesockets are secured the terminals of pintles 18. The pintle of each dooris supported for rotary movement relative to the body of the cart by apair of L-shaped brackets 14, suitably secured to the side braces 15, asclearly shown in Fig. 7. Surrounding each pintle is a coiled spring 16,one end of each of which is secured in the adjacent bracket 14, thelower end of the spring being passed through an opening in the pintleadjacent to its lower end. By this it will be seen that the naturaltendency of the springs is to force the doors open when they arereleased, thus to permit the discharge of the contents of the body ofthe cart. The means for holding the doors normally locked against theoutward opening tendency of the springs consists of a latch 17, theshank 18 of which is arranged to slide between guides 19 carried byplates 20 secured to the front cross brace 21 of the body. The shank 18is a hollow structure and has arranged within it a coiled spring 22 theupper end of which engages with a pin 28 depending from the latch, andthe lower end of which engages a pin 24 carried by a plate 25 secured tothe under side of the cross brace 21, the tendency of the spring beingnormally to cause the latch to engage with the outer surface of thelower ends of the doors at their meeting points. The means fordepressing the shank to move the latch out of locked engagement with thedoors consists of a lever embodying three arms 26, 27 and 28, the leverbeing pivoted at 29 between a pair of keepers 30 depending from theplate 25. The arm 26 engages the lower wall of the slot of the shank, asclearly shown in Fig. 5, beneath the plate 25, and upon the three armlever being rocked by pressure on the arm 28, which projects in aforward direction, the shank will be drawn downward and thus move thelatch out of engagement with the doors whereupon the latter will bereleased and will be automatically swung into the position shown bydotted lines in Fig. 2. The lever 28 is provided with a foot piece 31 bywhich to facilitate the rocking of the three arm lever, and the arm 27has connected with it at the point of juncture of the arm 28 one end ofa rod 32, the other end of which passes through a keeper 33 secured tothe under side of the front cross brace 34;, and extends a sufficientdistance beyond the keeper to be within easy reach of the operator whenhe desires to release the doors from the rear of the machine instead ofin front.

The form of the invention shown in Fig. 3 is the same as that showninFig. 1, except that the back of the body 1 is closed by a head 85.

In the form of the invention shown in Fig. 4, the frame carriesa-singlewheel 36 instead of two wheels, as in the other forms bf theinvention, this causing the structure, to all intents and purposes, tobe a wheelbarrow. A further diiference on tlicconstruction ofthe deviceshown inFig. l over those shown in Figs. 1 and-3 is that the doors 37close the sides instead of the front endof the body and are released bythe SEtmGfOIHI of locking latch and lever as thatshown in the figuresfirst described, and as this will readily be understood, the samereference characters are employed to designate the parts of the lockingmechanism.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that while theimprovements herein described are simple in character, they will bethoroughly etlicient in practice for the purposes designed, and willcoact in the production of a barn yard cart that may readily beemployed, in any place where an ordinary wheelbarrow can be used, toincreased advantage.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is '1. A. vehiclecomprising a body, doors for closing a part of the body, spring hingescarried by the doors to normally hold the same 2 5 in open position, asliding latch adapted for engagement with the doors at their meetingedges to hold the same closed, and means for releasing the latch fromengagement with the doors to permit the doors to automatically open.

2. A vehicle comprising a body, doors for closing a part of the body,spring hinges carried by the doors to normally force the doors to openposition, a sliding latch adapted for engagement with the doors at theirmeeting edges. to normally hold the same closed, said latch having aslotted shank projecting therefrom, and an angular lever having one armengaged with said slotted shank whereby uponmovement of the lever theshank may be moved to withdraw the latch from engagement with the doorsto permit the doors to be automatically opened.

3. A vehicle comprising a body, doors for closing a part of the body,spring hinges carriedby the doors for forcing the doors to openposition, a slidable latch adapted for engagement with the doors attheir meeting edges to .1 normally hold the same in closed position, aspring for normally holding the latch in engagement with said doors, andmeans for releasing the latch against the tension off the spring topermit the doors to automatically open.

4:. A' vehicle comprising a body, doors for closing a part of the body,spring hinges carriedby the doors, the tension of the spring hingesnormally forcing the doors to open position, a slidable latch having aslotted shank adapted for engagement with the meeting edges-of the doorsto normally hold the same in closed position, a spring engaged againstsaid latch to normally hold the same against the meeting edges of thedoors, an angular lever pivotally connected .to the body, one arm ofsaid lever' being engaged within the I slot in the shank, whereby. uponmovement of the lever the latch is disengagedfrom the doorsagainstthetension of said spring, whereby to perm t the doors to openautomatically.

intestimony whereof I hereunto aiiix my signature in the presence of twowitnesses. LUCIUS N. WADE. Witnesses:

G. W. J'E'WETT, B. M. LAWRENOE.

Copies of this patent may be'obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

Washington. Dill.

